Re: Fluency Wish-List

At 02:32 AM 4/13/2000 +0200, Kristian Jensen wrote:
>...[snip]...
>YAGUA: I have a reference grammar of it in the 2nd Vol of the Handbook of
>Amazonian languages. There are so many features in it that I like. What's
>more is that its the first completely describe type 8 language: verb-inital,
>post-positional, genitive before head, descriptive modifier after nominal
>head. I've been trying to make Boreanesian a type 8 language as well, with
>some success.
When you describe Yagua as a "type 8" language, what typological system are
you referring to, and what are the other types?

- Tim